Seagate Ups The Game with 2.5″ 3TB and 4TB Drives – What You Need to Know

Great News, bit hoarders! Seagate has now released a 2.5″, 3TB and 4TB drives as USB 3.0 drives, which you can open and use as internal drives in your devices. It is important to note, however, that these drives are 15mm tall, which will not fit without issue inside MacBooks or Macbook Pros (or most other laptops, for that matter). So the short of it is, yes, they will work in place of the original hard drive for many Macbook / Pros, but you may want to look at the photos in our “Installing dual drives in a Macbook / Pro” post to determine whether squeezing these taller drives in is worth it for you, and whether they’ll work in your specific machine.

These drives are also too tall to fit in a PS4, if you’re wondering, but do work fine for the Xbox 360 or anywhere else you would use an external USB 3.0 drive.

Aside from their height and capacity, they are vanilla drives – probably at 5400rpm, but definitely not 7200rpm – Seagate doesn’t tell us.

For those wanting to use these drives internally (where they’ll fit with their 15mm height), who don’t want to have to open a USB enclosure to remove them, they are now available as bare drives as well.